Title
SitePainter: a tool for exploring biogeographical patterns.
Abstract
As microbial ecologists take advantage of high-throughput analytical techniques to describe microbial communities across everincreasing numbers of samples, the need for new analysis tools that reveal the intrinsic spatial patterns and structures of these populations is crucial. Here we present SitePainter, an interactive graphical tool that allows investigators to create or upload pictures of their study site, load diversity analyses data and display both diversity and taxonomy results in a spatial context. Features of SitePainter include: visualizing alpha-diversity, using taxonomic summaries; visualizing beta-diversity, using results from multidimensional scaling methods; and animating relationships among microbial taxa or pathways overtime. SitePainter thus increases the visual power and ability to explore spatially explicit studies. Availability: https://sourceforge. net/projects/sitepainter
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1093/bioinformatics/btr685
BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
metagenomics,bacteria,metagenome
Analysis tools,Multidimensional scaling,Computer science,Upload,Metagenomics,Bioinformatics,Spatial contextual awareness,Spatial ecology
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
3
1367-4803
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Gonzalez100.34
Jesse Stombaugh2162.22
Christian L Lauber320.86
Noah Fierer421.19
Rob Knight536626.19